Tidelift Raises $15M to Fund Open Source Developers

Tidelift is a company that offers subscription services for companies to get development support for important open source; the company has raised $15M in funding to build out these services.

From the article:

The company wants to sign up independent developers working on core open-source projects as “lifters,” or ongoing maintainers of a given project, who will get paid for their contributions to open-source projects being tracked by Tidelift.